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by dave333 5y ago
Most properties need to be gutted and remodeled around once every 50 years or sooner so construction that is easily remodeled, sometimes in dramatic ways, is more optimal. That said may europeans live in old structures that are very subopti
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by dave333 5y ago
I thought DARPA designed the internet to survive nuclear war - no single point of failure - clearly Facebook's network breaks that rule. They need a DNS of last resort that doesn't update fast.
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by dave333 5y ago
This is par for the course with Google. Many Adsense accounts have been terminated for similarly vague policy violations. I am sure they catch a lot of bad actors, but they also catch a lot of folks who have no clue what they have done wron
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by dave333 5y ago
Permaculture food forests are a very sustainable and productive way to create or restore a forest: https://youtu.be/6GJFL0MD9fc
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by dave333 5y ago
The French are fried since their foreign policy is now toast.
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by dave333 5y ago
Boris wins round one of the post Brexit passive aggressive war between UK and France.
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by dave333 5y ago
needs a freemium model, also android and desktop versions
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by dave333 5y ago
Why does the SciAm web page gobble CPU?
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by dave333 5y ago
Sidereal month (relative to fixed stars) is 27.32 days. Synodic month relative to Earth is 29.53. There are other months that correct sidereal for motion around the sun, eccentricity of the lunar orbit, and tilt of lunar orbit, but the diff
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by dave333 5y ago
Start with Las Vegas and figure out how you would improve things - hardest thing would be replacing the mob as the source of funding.
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by dave333 5y ago
Figure out the best location for a hyperloop hub and put it there
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by dave333 5y ago
This can be great for houses as well see https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.solarm...
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by dave333 5y ago
Afghanistan seems to illustrate both continuing to invest too long (20 years) and then once the decision was made (by Obama) to continue investing enough (some say too much) to prop up a democratic Afghan regime, and then not investing en
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by dave333 5y ago
Looks like the public instance at https://whoogle.sdf.org is hacked/corrupt since it returns different results to the other public instances.
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by dave333 5y ago
There seem to be many darktable tutorials on Youtube so which ones do people recommend? I've watched a couple of intro ones but looking for good ones on digital workflows.
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by dave333 5y ago
How long before there's a generic version of these drugs, Semaglutide and Liraglutide? I assume Medicare doesn't cover these yet.
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by dave333 5y ago
In the early days of IDEs (1990s) there were projects where I spent more time trying to figure out the IDE than I did on the project code! Same goes for many frameworks. Just when you get competent, the IDE/framework changes. AFter a f
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by dave333 5y ago
Since all debris will return to near the collision point approximately every 90 minutes, there will be further collisions of bits of debris that will tend to reduce the size of the bits of debris and speed up the decay. This will be more pr
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by dave333 5y ago
A better way to both heat and cool a building passively is the Skytherm Roof: https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GIGM_enUS553US553&sxsrf... https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/harold-hay
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by dave333 5y ago
definition of how to piss off your employees!!
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by dave333 5y ago
pretty decent for an incompetent professor in my opinion
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by dave333 5y ago
(grand)kids toys especially large cumbersome play center type ones free off Craigslist. Also kids books cheap at garage sales and goodwill. And for grandpa two buck chuck and box wine :-)
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by dave333 5y ago
the short term effect is without the vaccine you can be dead in three weeks so there's no logic behind what they are saying, just political will.
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by dave333 5y ago
Musk's 5 steps: Design Delete Simplify Accelerate Automate Based on that a framework would end up as a set of simple add-ons, rather like Unix.
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by dave333 5y ago
The page is also a great example of awful web design.
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by dave333 5y ago
Yes - my point is that that first job got most things right about how to organize sw development despite the primitive state of hardware and software. So called methodologies have made things worse mostly.
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by dave333 5y ago
It's ironic that my first paid job at Racal in the UK working on computer aided design software in assembler running on shared fridge sized minicomputers with 64K RAM got many SW development truisms right. Desks all in one large room w
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by dave333 5y ago
The value of Poundbury is in demonstrating an alternative to endless monotonous suburbia by reinventing the village with allowance but not priority for cars. The style of the architecture is a matter of taste - for me it would work equally
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by dave333 5y ago
Eventually job interviews will be done by AI bots that are programmed not to have any gender/race/age/appearance/sexual orientation/weight/attractiveness bias.
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by dave333 5y ago
For a sedentary job there's no need to be fit. Some people are the weight equivalent of racists - maybe fat fascists? fat nazis?

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